1 00:00:07,505 --> 00:00:09,203 ♪ MTV 2 00:00:10,247 --> 00:00:12,075 These badges we wear on our chests, 3 00:00:12,075 --> 00:00:13,903 made from different materials. 4 00:00:13,903 --> 00:00:16,253 Mine a star cut from a cinco peso piece. 5 00:00:16,253 --> 00:00:18,212 My prisoner a good man. 6 00:00:18,212 --> 00:00:20,692 I trust you'll see he get a fair trial. 7 00:00:20,692 --> 00:00:22,738 My prisoners always get what they deserve. 8 00:00:22,738 --> 00:00:25,219 I see you got yourself into some trouble. 9 00:00:25,219 --> 00:00:26,307 All in a day's work. 10 00:00:27,264 --> 00:00:29,092 Marry me, Calista. 11 00:00:29,092 --> 00:00:31,877 You can't afford the ring it'll take to hitch me. 12 00:00:31,877 --> 00:00:34,532 This the one who done Webb. 13 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:39,233 Good work, Billy Crow. 14 00:00:40,408 --> 00:00:43,063 I'm leavin'. I can't stay here-- they'll have my neck. 15 00:00:43,063 --> 00:00:44,281 You got nothing to worry about. 16 00:00:44,281 --> 00:00:47,284 Maybe you don't, but my last name ain't Reeves. 17 00:00:47,284 --> 00:00:48,764 Well, you must have heard the stories 18 00:00:48,764 --> 00:00:50,200 about Black men disappearing. 19 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,028 Slavery is supposed to be dead, 20 00:00:52,028 --> 00:00:53,812 but it is only wounded. 21 00:00:53,812 --> 00:00:56,163 Texas Rangers received the boots 22 00:00:56,163 --> 00:00:57,642 of prisoner Jackson Cole. 23 00:00:57,642 --> 00:00:59,862 Who makin' Black men disappear? 24 00:01:00,863 --> 00:01:03,605 Bass Reeves. Mr. Sundown. 25 00:01:03,605 --> 00:01:05,302 The cinco peso. 26 00:01:05,302 --> 00:01:08,740 Don't you see? Heaven is full of killers, Bass Reeves. 27 00:01:10,264 --> 00:01:13,223 ♪ slow, dramatic music 28 00:01:40,207 --> 00:01:42,687 You was good to me. 29 00:01:43,688 --> 00:01:45,734 Be good to them now. 30 00:02:02,707 --> 00:02:04,970 Know why I'm here? 31 00:02:12,369 --> 00:02:14,328 Want to say your goodbyes? 32 00:03:10,166 --> 00:03:12,299 When you've sat on this bench, 33 00:03:12,299 --> 00:03:14,910 for as long as I have, 34 00:03:14,910 --> 00:03:17,521 you come to regard misfortune 35 00:03:17,521 --> 00:03:20,437 with a certain dispassion. 36 00:03:21,438 --> 00:03:23,005 This is no different. 37 00:03:24,049 --> 00:03:26,400 In the case of Bass Reeves, 38 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,446 a deputy marshal assigned to this court, 39 00:03:29,446 --> 00:03:31,970 who has been tried for the murder... 40 00:03:39,369 --> 00:03:42,416 At this date, 41 00:03:42,416 --> 00:03:45,288 the jury has determined... 42 00:03:46,289 --> 00:03:48,204 ♪ soaring, triumphant music 43 00:04:53,095 --> 00:04:57,229 Jennie, you've mastered what I've spent 44 00:04:57,229 --> 00:04:59,884 46 years of matrimony wrestling. 45 00:04:59,884 --> 00:05:01,930 How's that? 46 00:05:01,930 --> 00:05:05,063 My husband's sitting still. 47 00:05:05,063 --> 00:05:08,589 Being on that bench all day, day in and day out... 48 00:05:10,199 --> 00:05:13,071 I always said we weren't so different, 49 00:05:13,071 --> 00:05:15,552 except that one thing. 50 00:05:28,435 --> 00:05:31,612 Heaven is full of killers, Bass Reeves. 51 00:05:31,612 --> 00:05:34,528 And by His grace, they'll welcome me 52 00:05:34,528 --> 00:05:36,486 as they will welcome you. 53 00:05:44,102 --> 00:05:47,192 But all this blood on your hands... 54 00:05:48,193 --> 00:05:51,588 I was thinking a little time at home could do Bass well. 55 00:05:51,588 --> 00:05:54,678 Now there's an idea. 56 00:05:54,678 --> 00:05:56,593 That don't seem necessary to me. 57 00:05:56,593 --> 00:05:59,030 There he is. 58 00:06:01,990 --> 00:06:04,166 ♪ quiet music 59 00:06:24,752 --> 00:06:28,451 Judge Parker suggested a spell of lighter fare. 60 00:06:33,587 --> 00:06:36,459 I've got us a fine cook here, Bass. 61 00:06:36,459 --> 00:06:38,505 Came recommended by Heck Thomas. 62 00:06:38,505 --> 00:06:42,204 Word is his beans? Even better than his biscuits. 63 00:06:42,204 --> 00:06:44,293 Mm. 64 00:06:47,427 --> 00:06:48,602 Come on. 65 00:07:02,659 --> 00:07:05,575 We know our own. 66 00:07:05,575 --> 00:07:06,620 I saw you. 67 00:07:08,143 --> 00:07:09,927 You are a wolf, Bass. 68 00:07:10,624 --> 00:07:12,495 We know our own. 69 00:07:13,714 --> 00:07:16,456 Nah, you a monster. 70 00:07:22,418 --> 00:07:24,376 What the hell you say? 71 00:07:26,466 --> 00:07:27,728 Nothin'. 72 00:07:31,340 --> 00:07:33,385 ♪ tense music 73 00:07:41,568 --> 00:07:44,222 ♪ quiet, melancholy music 74 00:08:20,128 --> 00:08:22,130 You left him? 75 00:08:23,740 --> 00:08:27,265 Our visit with you and Bass made an impression on both of us. 76 00:08:28,832 --> 00:08:32,488 I asked him how he could build a new world 77 00:08:32,488 --> 00:08:34,621 when his own home wasn't even in order. 78 00:08:35,752 --> 00:08:38,276 He asked me if that mattered. 79 00:08:39,539 --> 00:08:41,192 Esme, dear. 80 00:08:44,282 --> 00:08:46,197 Truth is, 81 00:08:46,197 --> 00:08:50,114 I always knew Edwin's dreams were pure, 82 00:08:50,114 --> 00:08:51,681 but his heart couldn't follow. 83 00:08:54,902 --> 00:08:56,468 Let's get you inside. 84 00:09:10,787 --> 00:09:12,702 I kept waiting on Bass for this, 85 00:09:12,702 --> 00:09:15,270 I might get to play at my own funeral. 86 00:09:15,270 --> 00:09:17,664 That your way of saying thank you? 87 00:09:17,664 --> 00:09:19,622 A way. 88 00:09:22,277 --> 00:09:24,671 None of my business, but... 89 00:09:24,671 --> 00:09:26,629 how do you two handle it? 90 00:09:26,629 --> 00:09:27,630 What? 91 00:09:27,630 --> 00:09:29,632 The miles between. 92 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,507 I've grown stronger, I suppose. 93 00:09:36,857 --> 00:09:38,859 But Bass? 94 00:09:38,859 --> 00:09:42,602 His children hardly even notice him anymore. 95 00:09:43,820 --> 00:09:45,605 Even when he around here, 96 00:09:45,605 --> 00:09:46,736 he like a shadow on the floorboards. 97 00:09:46,736 --> 00:09:48,782 Still. 98 00:09:48,782 --> 00:09:50,827 He tries to do right by them. 99 00:09:50,827 --> 00:09:52,742 Trying is different than being. 100 00:09:52,742 --> 00:09:54,831 He's dedicated to you. 101 00:09:54,831 --> 00:09:56,659 Bass is dedicated to justice. 102 00:09:56,659 --> 00:09:59,444 To some kind of fancy ideal he keep buried in his heart. 103 00:09:59,444 --> 00:10:01,708 Right there under that badge. 104 00:10:01,708 --> 00:10:03,927 Seems sometimes there's hardly much room 105 00:10:03,927 --> 00:10:06,234 for anything or anyone else. 106 00:10:07,627 --> 00:10:10,586 Duty and law. Just like blood and bone. 107 00:10:10,586 --> 00:10:13,328 Forgive me, Lord, 108 00:10:13,328 --> 00:10:16,810 but that man has been baptized in your name, Jennie. 109 00:10:16,810 --> 00:10:18,768 I should be so lucky. 110 00:10:24,426 --> 00:10:27,298 This piano is gonna be finer 111 00:10:27,298 --> 00:10:28,865 than any Mistress Reeves ever dreamt of owning. 112 00:10:30,562 --> 00:10:32,173 Who would've imagined that. 113 00:10:45,534 --> 00:10:46,796 Hello. 114 00:10:46,796 --> 00:10:48,929 Is this the Reeves household? 115 00:10:48,929 --> 00:10:50,495 It is. 116 00:10:50,495 --> 00:10:51,714 Is Bass home? 117 00:10:51,714 --> 00:10:53,760 Mister Reeves is away. 118 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,849 Was there something I could help you with? 119 00:10:55,849 --> 00:10:57,459 How about Sally? 120 00:10:57,459 --> 00:10:59,983 Would you like to come inside while I fetch her? 121 00:10:59,983 --> 00:11:01,855 I have to leave now. 122 00:11:05,510 --> 00:11:08,905 ♪ gentle, dramatic music 123 00:11:12,822 --> 00:11:14,868 Sally Sharon Reeves! 124 00:11:22,876 --> 00:11:25,487 I just told that girl to mind her manners. 125 00:11:25,487 --> 00:11:26,793 To a white girl? 126 00:11:26,793 --> 00:11:28,577 You know better. 127 00:11:28,577 --> 00:11:29,883 Does Daddy know better? 128 00:11:30,884 --> 00:11:32,886 Cause I did exactly what he would've done. 129 00:11:33,974 --> 00:11:35,497 She ain't wrong. 130 00:11:35,497 --> 00:11:37,281 You want to check back into the Railhead? 131 00:11:37,281 --> 00:11:38,805 I'll accompany you. 132 00:11:38,805 --> 00:11:40,894 And you. 133 00:11:40,894 --> 00:11:42,591 Don't act like you're too old for a whupping. 134 00:11:43,897 --> 00:11:45,289 Yes, ma'am. 135 00:12:04,744 --> 00:12:05,832 Ma'am. 136 00:12:08,835 --> 00:12:09,923 How do? 137 00:12:09,923 --> 00:12:12,534 Hot as a pepper dipped in fire. 138 00:12:13,535 --> 00:12:14,884 Don't I know. 139 00:12:16,668 --> 00:12:19,628 Seems like ol' Scratch got the upper hand of late. 140 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,805 Looking for a' Moody O'Neil. 141 00:12:23,850 --> 00:12:27,810 Got a writ in my pocket with his name on it. 142 00:12:31,466 --> 00:12:34,425 Happen to know where he is? 143 00:12:36,863 --> 00:12:38,603 Sitting on this porch. 144 00:12:42,869 --> 00:12:45,872 Afternoon, Missus O'Neil. 145 00:12:47,830 --> 00:12:51,616 I put on my prettiest hanging dress. 146 00:12:51,616 --> 00:12:55,882 Just didn't know if it would be you or a mob. 147 00:12:58,841 --> 00:13:01,801 That ain't gonna be necessary. 148 00:13:01,801 --> 00:13:03,454 Will it, ma'am? 149 00:13:03,454 --> 00:13:08,024 Well, I'm told I entered this world quiet as the night. 150 00:13:09,373 --> 00:13:12,333 No squalling or fussing. 151 00:13:13,813 --> 00:13:16,728 I intend to leave it the same way. 152 00:13:20,428 --> 00:13:24,345 No personal effects, sorry to tell you. 153 00:13:24,345 --> 00:13:26,390 Well... 154 00:13:26,390 --> 00:13:29,829 you gonna want to take this. 155 00:13:29,829 --> 00:13:31,874 It's what I kilt him with. 156 00:13:31,874 --> 00:13:33,876 ♪ melancholy music ♪ 157 00:14:14,134 --> 00:14:16,092 Your daddy learnt with turkeys. 158 00:14:17,093 --> 00:14:17,964 It was William Reeves, 159 00:14:17,964 --> 00:14:19,922 George's father, that taught him, 160 00:14:19,922 --> 00:14:21,881 but... 161 00:14:21,881 --> 00:14:25,145 I think he was born knowing how to squeeze a trigger. 162 00:14:25,145 --> 00:14:28,104 They'd travel to contests, and Bass always won. 163 00:14:28,104 --> 00:14:33,109 And then, they'd come back with a whole wagon chock-full. 164 00:14:33,109 --> 00:14:37,200 Master William kept the money, of course, but Bass, 165 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,029 he got all them big old birds, round as pumpkins. 166 00:14:40,029 --> 00:14:41,944 And Pearlalee would cook 'em up, 167 00:14:41,944 --> 00:14:46,470 and all of us would eat and eat until our bellies about burst, 168 00:14:46,470 --> 00:14:49,647 round as pumpkins, too. 169 00:14:49,647 --> 00:14:52,955 I've been told your daddy never missed a shot. 170 00:14:52,955 --> 00:14:55,001 Not once. 171 00:14:57,655 --> 00:14:59,440 Mama! 172 00:15:09,189 --> 00:15:11,060 Get upstairs. 173 00:15:11,060 --> 00:15:12,888 Now. Go to your room. 174 00:15:12,888 --> 00:15:14,585 Go. Get upstairs. 175 00:15:14,585 --> 00:15:16,457 Sally. 176 00:15:16,457 --> 00:15:19,025 Don't come out till I say. 177 00:15:20,983 --> 00:15:23,116 ♪ slow, tense music 178 00:15:28,121 --> 00:15:30,123 ♪ melancholy music ♪ 179 00:15:35,084 --> 00:15:36,129 She ain't eating. 180 00:15:56,932 --> 00:15:59,021 I don't care much for what is cooking neither, 181 00:15:59,021 --> 00:16:00,066 but you got to eat. 182 00:16:00,066 --> 00:16:03,025 I don't know that I do. 183 00:16:04,070 --> 00:16:07,899 Given what I'm headed for. 184 00:16:07,899 --> 00:16:09,597 You don't know your fate. 185 00:16:09,597 --> 00:16:11,294 That's what the court's for. 186 00:16:11,294 --> 00:16:13,731 I deserve to hang. 187 00:16:14,819 --> 00:16:17,561 An I don't regret nothing. 188 00:16:50,029 --> 00:16:52,205 ♪ tense music 189 00:17:01,127 --> 00:17:04,347 That granny had you thinking she was ready to hang, huh? 190 00:17:04,347 --> 00:17:08,134 Should've seen how fast she run, once freed of your chains. 191 00:17:20,059 --> 00:17:21,799 Where's the old crow? 192 00:17:21,799 --> 00:17:23,714 Your cook turned her loose. 193 00:17:27,805 --> 00:17:29,372 Shit. 194 00:17:30,852 --> 00:17:32,984 Her fat old self, she can't have gone far. 195 00:17:32,984 --> 00:17:35,770 Oh, she took off hours before first light. 196 00:17:35,770 --> 00:17:37,859 You cowardly son of a bitch. 197 00:17:47,260 --> 00:17:50,306 You set out to hang an old Black woman 198 00:17:50,306 --> 00:17:52,178 in a white man's noose. 199 00:17:53,875 --> 00:17:55,050 But I'm cowardly? 200 00:17:55,050 --> 00:17:56,965 You shut your damn mouth already. 201 00:17:58,445 --> 00:17:59,750 We can catch her. 202 00:17:59,750 --> 00:18:00,795 Your man want to do me harm. 203 00:18:00,795 --> 00:18:02,275 Now, you should remind him, 204 00:18:02,275 --> 00:18:04,190 my name ain't on one of your master's writs. 205 00:18:04,190 --> 00:18:06,279 Huh? 206 00:18:06,279 --> 00:18:08,672 My hide won't feed Mrs. Bass. 207 00:18:08,672 --> 00:18:12,067 Or them little coons that nigger sow pushed out of her. 208 00:18:14,374 --> 00:18:17,290 Ah... 209 00:18:17,290 --> 00:18:18,769 But... 210 00:18:24,035 --> 00:18:26,603 Ah, these will set you at ease. 211 00:18:29,737 --> 00:18:32,653 Go on, collect your blood bounty! 212 00:18:34,133 --> 00:18:36,265 Up-jumped slave catcher. 213 00:18:36,265 --> 00:18:39,138 Because no matter what you say, 214 00:18:39,138 --> 00:18:40,661 that's all you is. 215 00:18:52,499 --> 00:18:54,327 ♪ tense, dark music ♪ 216 00:19:04,250 --> 00:19:06,121 What'd you do? 217 00:19:13,737 --> 00:19:15,783 Bass, we got to fix our story here. 218 00:19:17,263 --> 00:19:20,353 Say you were just cleaning your rifle or some such, else... 219 00:19:20,353 --> 00:19:22,268 Parker won't take no mercy. 220 00:20:37,125 --> 00:20:39,301 I saw you. 221 00:20:39,301 --> 00:20:41,129 You are a wolf, Bass. 222 00:20:41,129 --> 00:20:44,263 I know a monster when I see one, Bass Reeves. 223 00:20:44,263 --> 00:20:46,047 You listen to your daddy, now. 224 00:20:46,047 --> 00:20:47,788 Curtis! 225 00:20:49,398 --> 00:20:50,443 No! 226 00:20:55,099 --> 00:20:58,233 Bass, you must know... 227 00:20:58,233 --> 00:21:00,453 I had no desire to shoot the boy. 228 00:21:02,498 --> 00:21:04,370 I wonder how much blood 229 00:21:04,370 --> 00:21:06,372 you left in your wake on your path to freedom. 230 00:21:06,372 --> 00:21:08,199 No more than I had to. 231 00:21:09,462 --> 00:21:11,812 - No child. - You are a killer, just like me. 232 00:21:34,878 --> 00:21:36,967 ♪ slow, dramatic music ♪ 233 00:21:58,859 --> 00:22:00,426 And one summer, 234 00:22:00,426 --> 00:22:03,951 probably six or seven years old, 235 00:22:03,951 --> 00:22:06,519 we had a drought. 236 00:22:06,519 --> 00:22:08,172 The Biblical kind. 237 00:22:08,172 --> 00:22:11,654 My daddy lost a lot of sleep. 238 00:22:11,654 --> 00:22:15,179 Scared to death he was gonna lose all that he had. 239 00:22:15,179 --> 00:22:18,008 Watching his boy grow thinner 240 00:22:18,008 --> 00:22:20,576 than he already was. 241 00:22:20,576 --> 00:22:23,536 I used to wander down to the root cellar 242 00:22:23,536 --> 00:22:26,408 and once, after church, I hit the second step 243 00:22:26,408 --> 00:22:28,932 and I heard Mama and Daddy below, 244 00:22:28,932 --> 00:22:31,457 a lot of big... 245 00:22:31,457 --> 00:22:34,155 unkind words I didn't understand. 246 00:22:36,505 --> 00:22:38,551 They were scared. 247 00:22:41,467 --> 00:22:44,905 About tomorrow, and the day after. 248 00:22:47,690 --> 00:22:51,390 Now, I've always felt compelled to help folks. 249 00:22:53,130 --> 00:22:54,958 No different then from now. 250 00:22:54,958 --> 00:22:56,569 Except when I was a boy, 251 00:22:56,569 --> 00:22:58,614 I'd go treasure hunting. 252 00:22:58,614 --> 00:23:00,616 Thinking that if I found something, 253 00:23:00,616 --> 00:23:03,010 Mama and Daddy would be okay. 254 00:23:03,010 --> 00:23:05,578 And wouldn't you know it? 255 00:23:06,535 --> 00:23:10,583 In the creek, down past the farm, 256 00:23:10,583 --> 00:23:12,585 I found gold. 257 00:23:12,585 --> 00:23:15,718 Shining and winking at me. 258 00:23:15,718 --> 00:23:19,200 So I scooped up what I could and ran to the house, 259 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,202 believing I'd saved 260 00:23:21,202 --> 00:23:23,552 what they had lost all that sleep over. 261 00:23:23,552 --> 00:23:26,033 I burst inside, 262 00:23:26,033 --> 00:23:28,165 dumped all the treasure on Mama's table. 263 00:23:28,165 --> 00:23:31,081 I couldn't hear what Daddy said, 264 00:23:31,081 --> 00:23:34,041 but he picked up a mallet and started hitting it. 265 00:23:34,041 --> 00:23:38,132 I cried when I saw it break up and... 266 00:23:38,132 --> 00:23:39,655 crumble... 267 00:23:40,787 --> 00:23:43,267 ...and then shatter, like glass. 268 00:23:45,008 --> 00:23:47,358 It was naught but pyrite. 269 00:23:47,358 --> 00:23:50,318 It's called fool's gold. 270 00:23:53,190 --> 00:23:55,454 I carried that lesson with me. 271 00:23:56,498 --> 00:24:01,024 Used it to keep my expectations in check. 272 00:24:01,024 --> 00:24:04,027 So, why don't I just ask you, Bass, 273 00:24:04,027 --> 00:24:05,638 what are you? 274 00:24:07,596 --> 00:24:09,685 Are you gold? 275 00:24:11,034 --> 00:24:12,471 Or pyrite? 276 00:24:15,735 --> 00:24:18,477 I didn't know my own father. 277 00:24:19,782 --> 00:24:22,045 They sold him off before I was born. 278 00:24:24,395 --> 00:24:27,311 Come Christmastime, 279 00:24:27,311 --> 00:24:29,705 they'd let him visit. 280 00:24:29,705 --> 00:24:33,579 A sit, a meal... 281 00:24:33,579 --> 00:24:36,582 then gone all over again. 282 00:24:36,582 --> 00:24:40,455 My mama would plait verbena in her hair. 283 00:24:40,455 --> 00:24:43,023 Pretty herself up for his coming. 284 00:24:43,023 --> 00:24:46,983 Remember that clearer than my daddy's face itself. 285 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,030 No... 286 00:24:51,727 --> 00:24:56,253 The man whose name and brand I carry, 287 00:24:56,253 --> 00:24:58,517 the one who taught me to ride, 288 00:24:58,517 --> 00:25:00,780 to shoot, 289 00:25:00,780 --> 00:25:03,173 was William Reeves. 290 00:25:04,653 --> 00:25:07,090 Everyone told me how fortunate I was 291 00:25:07,090 --> 00:25:08,614 to have his good favor. 292 00:25:08,614 --> 00:25:10,746 "You got the big man's interest, Bass." 293 00:25:10,746 --> 00:25:13,444 "Mind him good, Bass." 294 00:25:15,316 --> 00:25:17,579 He wasn't a cruel man. 295 00:25:17,579 --> 00:25:19,581 At least not on the surface. 296 00:25:19,581 --> 00:25:23,193 But then he gifted me to his son. 297 00:25:23,193 --> 00:25:24,586 George. 298 00:25:24,586 --> 00:25:29,373 And when that man's cruel came too much to bear... 299 00:25:29,373 --> 00:25:31,767 I didn't go treasure hunting, 300 00:25:31,767 --> 00:25:34,509 collecting loose rocks, 301 00:25:34,509 --> 00:25:36,685 fool's gold. 302 00:25:36,685 --> 00:25:38,600 No, sir. 303 00:25:40,559 --> 00:25:43,649 For you, knowing who's who a simple thing. 304 00:25:43,649 --> 00:25:46,782 Gold or pyrite. 305 00:25:46,782 --> 00:25:49,219 But justice... 306 00:25:50,656 --> 00:25:53,180 Ain't nothing more costly. 307 00:25:53,180 --> 00:25:56,662 Now I'm ready to pay for mine in Hell on the Border. 308 00:25:56,662 --> 00:25:58,751 You paid yours, Judge Parker? 309 00:25:58,751 --> 00:26:00,622 'Cause I reckon you about to, 310 00:26:00,622 --> 00:26:03,538 'cause I ain't gonna be down there alone, am I? 311 00:26:03,538 --> 00:26:05,540 You gonna be sitting right next to me. 312 00:26:05,540 --> 00:26:07,673 So I'll go ahead and ask. 313 00:26:09,805 --> 00:26:13,461 How much time we doin'... 314 00:26:13,461 --> 00:26:15,115 sir? 315 00:26:16,725 --> 00:26:18,684 ♪ tense, dramatic music ♪ 316 00:26:56,460 --> 00:26:58,724 You are a killer, just like me. 317 00:26:58,724 --> 00:27:00,508 You are, you are a killer. 318 00:27:02,728 --> 00:27:05,165 When you've sat on this bench 319 00:27:05,165 --> 00:27:07,471 for as long as I have, 320 00:27:07,471 --> 00:27:09,822 you come to regard misfortune 321 00:27:09,822 --> 00:27:12,738 with a certain dispassion. 322 00:27:13,739 --> 00:27:15,610 This is no different. 323 00:27:16,655 --> 00:27:18,918 In the case of Bass Reeves, 324 00:27:18,918 --> 00:27:21,747 a deputy marshal assigned to this court, 325 00:27:21,747 --> 00:27:26,490 who has been tried for the murder of Willy Leach... 326 00:27:26,490 --> 00:27:29,798 Upon careful review of the evidence 327 00:27:29,798 --> 00:27:32,758 presented by the defendant's attorney, 328 00:27:32,758 --> 00:27:35,499 and the state, 329 00:27:35,499 --> 00:27:37,327 I pronounce you... 330 00:27:38,328 --> 00:27:40,548 ...not guilty. 331 00:27:44,770 --> 00:27:46,728 ♪ quiet music 332 00:28:25,941 --> 00:28:27,900 ♪ gentle music ♪ 333 00:28:55,405 --> 00:28:57,581 These badges we wear on our chests, 334 00:28:57,581 --> 00:28:59,583 made from different materials. 335 00:28:59,583 --> 00:29:03,370 Yours a tin star, mine a star cut from a cinco peso piece. 336 00:29:03,370 --> 00:29:06,460 But the power they give... 337 00:29:06,460 --> 00:29:08,984 You honor the badge, Bass. 338 00:29:08,984 --> 00:29:11,987 But even with it, a man like you couldn't arrest a man like me 339 00:29:11,987 --> 00:29:13,380 once we cross that river. 340 00:29:13,380 --> 00:29:15,643 I had no mind to arrest you. 341 00:29:15,643 --> 00:29:16,992 No. By those angry eyes, 342 00:29:16,992 --> 00:29:18,951 I reckon you'd just as soon kill me. 343 00:29:23,607 --> 00:29:25,740 Bass, you must know... 344 00:29:25,740 --> 00:29:27,786 I had no desire to shoot the boy. 345 00:29:27,786 --> 00:29:30,310 ♪ dark, mournful music 346 00:29:42,365 --> 00:29:44,890 When I was gone from you... 347 00:29:46,543 --> 00:29:49,720 ...there was a boy that I loved like a son. 348 00:29:51,722 --> 00:29:53,855 His name was Curtis. 349 00:29:56,031 --> 00:29:57,946 He was murdered. 350 00:30:00,775 --> 00:30:03,734 I'm going after the man who killed him. 351 00:30:04,735 --> 00:30:06,737 ♪ intense, dramatic music 352 00:30:52,783 --> 00:30:54,742 ♪ dark, low music 353 00:31:07,233 --> 00:31:09,713 You a lawman or an outlaw? 354 00:31:09,713 --> 00:31:12,151 Today, a bit of both, I reckon. 355 00:31:13,761 --> 00:31:15,545 ♪ dramatic music 356 00:31:15,545 --> 00:31:17,504 Ranger Pierce don't accept armed company. 357 00:31:17,504 --> 00:31:20,942 Now, the myth of Mr. Sundown, 358 00:31:20,942 --> 00:31:23,423 that's taken a fanciful flourish from reality. 359 00:31:23,423 --> 00:31:24,598 Not that I mind. 360 00:31:24,598 --> 00:31:26,513 Goddamn, kid! 361 00:31:28,558 --> 00:31:30,560 Careful, now. 362 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,954 Curiosity killed the deputy. 363 00:31:35,826 --> 00:31:37,828 ♪ gentle, melancholy music